Pants-leg holder



(No Model.)

W. s. POSTER. PANTS LEG HOLDER.

No. 547,989. Patented Oct. 15, 1895.

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NITE TATES WILLIAM S. FOSTER, OF KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN.

PANTS-LEG HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 547,989, dated October 15, 1895.

Application filed February 23, 1895. Serial 110.539.397. (Nomodeh) To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM S. FOSTER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kalamazoo, in the county of Kalamazoo, State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Pants-Leg Holder, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to catch devices attached to the inside of the bottom of pantslegs for holding them folded tight around the ankle when riding bicycles and for keeping them up out of the wet and mud when walking.

The invention consists in certain improvements in the catch devices used for this pur-. pose, all as more particularly described and claimed below.

In the drawings forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective View showing the pants-leg fastened with the fold therein; Fig. 2, a vertical section of lower portion of pants-leg, showing position of catch devices thereon; Fig. 3, a plan of slotted plate, showing one style of one part of the catch device; Fig. 4, same as Fig. 3, showing change; Fig. 5, a plan of the catch'plate, which, together with the slotted plate, constitutes the catch device;

Fig. 6, aside elevation of Fig. 5, looking from a point at the left; Fig. 7, an end elevation of Fig. 5; Fig. 8, lower part of pantsleg, showing the forming of the fold just before engaging or interlocking the catch device; Fig. 9, a broken detail from Figs. 3, 4, and 5 in enlarged perspective; and Fig. 10 is an enlarged section on line 1 l in Figs. 4 and 5, showing the catch-plate and slotted plate attached together.

Referring to the lettered parts of the drawings,A.A show the lower part of a pantsleg, Figs. 1, 2, and 8, and B, Figs. 1 and 8, the fold formed therein and to be held by the catch devices tight around the ankle, so as not to fiop about in ridinga bicycle and so as to be held up out of the wet and mud when walking, as stated.

In Fig. 8 is a slotted plate D, the slot therein diverging at the sides as it enters the plate and one end of said slot being open, the corners of said open end being chamfered ofi at F F, so as to more readily admit the entrance of the catch H on the catch-plate I. When the slotted plate is made with one end open, as in Fig. 3, the sides of the plate, being elastic, will yield outward slightly when inserting the catch H through the narrow throat of said slot 0, and after the catch passes this point the sides will spring back and the parts will be to a certain extent locked together. This catch-plate I, Figs. 5, 6, 7, and 10, is provided with a catch H by making separated curved gashes J J through the metal, with a short straight gash extension at the ends of the curves, as at e e and i i in Fig. 5, those e e at one being the longest, and then pressing the metal out, as at Hin Figs. 6, 7, and 10, so as to form a straight shoulder L at one end and an inclined shoulder N at the other end for the object stated farther on. The die for pressing out the catch H is so constructed as to forma concaved furrow O longitudinally in the top of the catch, Figs. and '7, between the overflanging edges S S, and, what is'more essential, forms side shoulders P P, which form smoother bearings for the edges E E of the slotted plate D to slide on when inserting the catch than would be the case with the cut edges of the shoulders N L. Yetthis catch H may be made flat or rounded on top, or in any other style having the overfianging edges S S, so far as the slotted plate D is concerned; but the style of plate '1, Figs. 4 and 10, has to do with the particular shoulders N L of the catch-plate I. The slot 0 in plate T has the same diverging sides F F as the plate D has in Fig. 3; but this slot in Fig. 4 opens into a round portion U, thus making the entire slot like a keyhole bounded all around by the metal of the plate. The shoulder L contacts with the closed end of slot 0 in Figs. 3, 4, and 10; but when the slotted plate T is used, Figs. 4 and 10, the closed endV of the keyhole-slot will readily slip over the inclined shoulderN 'of the catch-plate when detaching the catches by pulling on one side of' the fold B of the pants'leg. As a further precaution against the catch device becoming accidentally unlocked, in addition to or in lieu of the diverging sides F F of the slot 0, I form a nib on the slotted plate and a like nib Z on the catch-plate, the nib of one of the plates at least being concaved on the under side and the other convexed on the upper side, so as to interlock with each other, as in Fig. 10, when the plates are attached together. Both the slotted plate and the catch-plate are provided at the corners With countersunk perforated portions 13, Fig. 9, so they can be sewed onto the pants-leg, and the threads will come in the hollow and thus not project above the 5 surface of the plate and become Worn off.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

In a pants leg holder, a catch-device, comto prising a slotted-plate and a catch-plate, the catch on the catch-plate being longitudinally concaved forming the side shoulders and having the over flaring edges, and provided with the end shoulders, one of which is straight or abrupt, and the other on an incline,substantially as set forth.

In testimony of the foregoing I have hcreunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM S. FOSTER.

Witnesses:

THOMAS W. STEWAR'l, FRANK MCCAW. 

